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Fine Art Collection

One of the most notable features of the Harbour Office is the display of paintings and sculptures.

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Cross Channel Steamers at Donegall Quay, Belfast, 1th August 1929 by Farnk McKelvey

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Pollock Dock, 1934

Built up since the mid-nineteenth century by numerous Harbour Commissioners, the fine art collection includes a few seventeenth and eighteenth century portraits by unknown artists, nineteenth century French and Italian sculptures and bronzes, nineteenth century Irish paintings and sculptures and an assortment of paintings by twentieth century Northern Irish artists such as Joseph W Carey, William Conor, Frank McKelvey and Maurice Wilks.

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Sir Robert Baird, Proprietor of the Belfast Telegraph and Harbour Commissioner from 1922 to 1934

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Belfast Harbour, Ferry Steps, 1851

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Anna, 2nd Marchioness of Donegall (1774 - 1849)

The chief interest of the collection lies in its local historical relevance. Many of the landscapes are valuable records of Belfast and its environs in earlier times; likewise, most of the portraits are of former Commissioners and leading figures in the development of the City over the centuries.